South West London Better Care Fund
An information-governance framework for integrated health and social care across South West London
Strongest proof
Integrated-care data-sharing governance
- Sector
- Healthcare / NHS · Public Sector
- Capability
- Information Governance · NHS & HealthTech
- Geography
- South West London
- Engagement model
- Strategic & programme advisory
- Evidence
- Named client · Public evidence
At a glance
- Who
- South West London Better Care Fund · Healthcare / NHS · Public Sector
- Why it mattered
- Health organisations and local authorities across South West London needed a common, lawful basis for sharing care records.
- IG-Smart's role
- Information-governance programme leadership
01The exposure
A multi-borough South West London integrated-care programme required a common information-governance framework to support lawful health and social-care data sharing across organisational boundaries.
Integrated care depends on professionals seeing the right records at the right time — lawfully, securely and consistently across bodies with differing requirements.
02The mandate
A single information-governance framework that reconciled differing local requirements and would withstand legal and technical scrutiny.
Commissioned scope
- IG programme leadership
- Legal and technical data-sharing framework
- Harmonisation of borough and NHS requirements
03Environment
Organisation context
Describes the client organisation — not the size of IG-Smart's work.
- Integrated health and social care programme
Frameworks in scope
- Data Protection Act
- NHS information-governance requirements
Scope boundary
- Each participating organisation remained a controller accountable for its own data
04IG-Smart's approach
- 01
Data-sharing framework
Developed the legal and technical framework allowing multi-disciplinary professionals to share data across organisational and system boundaries.
- 02
Harmonising requirements
Worked with participating boroughs and health bodies to reconcile differing local requirements into one workable model.
- 03
Grounded in law and NHS IG practice
Built the model on data-protection law and NHS information-governance practice, focused on practical implementation.
05Engagement scale
What IG-Smart's work covered
- IG programme leadership
- Legal and technical data-sharing framework
06What we delivered
- Integrated data-sharing framework (legal and technical)
- Harmonised IG requirements across participating organisations
07Outcome
Professional assessment
Delivered a single IG framework designed to operate across multiple local authorities and NHS bodies.
08What this demonstrates
Relevant to health and public-sector programmes that need a common information-governance framework to support lawful data sharing across multiple organisations with differing operational requirements.
09What buyers can verify
Public
- Named client
- Engagement scope
- Deliverable types described
Further evidence can be discussed subject to confidentiality and client permissions.
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